Dying Side Arms

[AndMan3030]

My good buddy has a huge garden with about 18 crowns going. The pic I'm posting isn't great, but you can see the side arms growing about 2 - 3 inches, then drying and shriveling up. My hops at home haven't done anything like this, and the rest of his plants are growing STRONG.

What's going on?

 

[nagmay]

Looks like the plant decided it wasn't time to dedicate resources toward flowering and went back to the main growth phase. I wouldn't worry, as long as the main plant is still growing strong.

 

[day_trippr]

I see this quite often on the bottom half of my bines where the leaves are dinner plate size and four bines worth pretty much blot all light out from the stems. There's nothing left to stimulate growth.

No worries, the plant will pop out side arms where they can actually gather light. The upper half of all my plants looks like an epic rats nest...

Cheers!